Wall cabinet



June 16,1931. 1 M. LuMLEY 11,810,362;v

WALL GABINET Filed .m11 1. 1929 INVENTOR.

j 4' i u I ATTOINEYS Patented June 16, 1931 UNITED SfrAfrjgS;l

PATENT" AFries MAURICE'LUMLEY; OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSGNOR TO THE F. H. LAWSON COMPANY, OFCINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPORATION OFOHIQ WALL `CABINET Application led July 1,1929. kSerial No. 375,122.

My inventionvrelates to wall cabinets and particularly to modes of mounting such cabinets in the walls of buildings.

In the past themethod of mounting sheet metal cabinets in the walls of buildings having fire proofV construction has been to place a metal buck in the wall, which is in the form of a rectangular frame witha flange which is'used as an abutment lfor the exterw nal plaster on the interior of the room, and then to set the ,cabinet into the frame using screws which engage in threaded bosses formed in the buck.

l a customary-proceeding has been to strike out i; holesin the sides ofthe buck and grip threaded nuts about the holes or weld themin place.y

The diliiculty with this type of structure is that it is hard to locate the screw holes inthe sides of the cabinety to register with the ,zo threaded elements in the bucks, and often an improper security of the cabinets has resulted kfrom improper seating of the mounting screws for this reason, and furthermore, that the imbedded nuts are likely to get filled withy plaster and paint. i

It is the object kof my yinvention to overcome these difficulties and provide a buck of I metal to'which the cabinet can be secured by means of wood screws. f Y

I illustrate the preferred type of construction in the attached drawings,and will describe this structure in detail as being typical of my invention,the novelty of which I will set forth in the appended claim.

In the drawings: c

Figure l is a perspective of one of the sides of a buck. Y

Figure 2 is a section taken through a buck with the cabinet attached therein.

Figure 3 is a front elevation of the buck by.y itself. Figure 4 is a planview of the buck..

The illustrated embodiment of myI invention shows a cabinet 1 which may be of any type, and will fit Within the completed buck as shown in Figure 2. The buck is formed in the customary 'manner of sheet lmetal formed into a rectangular Iframe having sides 2, 2, bo'ttom and top4. The sheets are flanged outwardly at 5, and the buck is set To form these bosses These pads are formed of metal boxes 7, 7. The boxes fit the wood blocks snugly, and may be flanged as at 8 and welded or riveted to the inside faces of the side walls .of the buck.y The sheet metal boxes are formed with large holes 9,9, therein, to provide plenty kof space for mounting screws to pass through into the wood.

In mounting the cabinet it is set into the buckand wood screws l0, thrust through previously prepared holes in the cabinet and screwed into the wood. Due to the size of the holes in the pad retaining boxes, there will be no difficulty in setting the screws, and the structure will be sufficiently lire proof to withstand a fire which does not destroy a building sufficiently to render the wall fittings useless, anyhow. The metal boxes also reinforce the woodso that even if the wood would split, the cabinet would be held' in place.

The placing of the 'pads,-their size and y s ters Patent, is

A mounting for a metalwall cabinet, comprising a frame with side walls intermediate the width of which metal boxes are mounted, said metal boxes retaining wooden iillers and having holes through which screws, extended through said cabinet, may be seated in said filler members.

MAURICE LUMLEY. 

